LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 290, 8 December 1874, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

■0" JNTERPROVINCIAL.

- - Lytteltox, Monday. The steamer Maori sailed at 4*30 p.m. for Picton and Nelson. Auckland, Monday. The Great American Circus has been a great success. They have played to crowded houses every evening. To-night they will give their last performance in Auckland. They leave here for Nelson per Phoebe on Tuesday, and will remain there until the next steamer calls proceeding to Wellington. A four-roomed house in Eden Terrace has been burned down. It was uninsured. Intelligence from Victoria states that there is every probability of a Victorian cricketing tesm coming here in a few months. There will be no difficulty regarding teams. The secretary of the Victorian team says it will rait them equally well whether a large portion of the gate money or a guaranteed sum is offered. Tuesday. The citizens' ball in honor of the Governor was attended by 200 ladies and gentlemen. In replying to the toast of bis health, the Marquis of Normanby said that the English form of government was the best system for a republic He entertained no fear of any difficulty arising be .ween the Colonies and Great Britain. He would take the first opportunity for travelling the colony from end to end. Sir George Arney made an excellent speech on the toast. He referred to the character., and services of Sir George Grey in most osrogistic terms as a man whose name we should look back with pride upon. DojifEDiN, Tuesday. In the test Comet case of Aaning v. Martin, judgment wa* given for the plaintiff for £35 with costs. Fully fifty more aciions are pending. Mabel's disqualification is for ever. The question of the disqualification of Captain Hntcbieson is left open in the event of furiher evidence being obtained. Toe observation ot the transit of Venus will be made at the Meteorological Station, jDunedin; by Messrs. Pope, Roes and Sbeij?. There is a thick drizzling rain now, which teems likely to last. The first glassware furnace In tbe colony was fixed by the Superintendent at White's Milton Pottery works jesterday. QrjSENgTowir, Monday, 8 p.m. The weather looks threatening, and heavy banks of clouds have been visible all day. Fesrs are entertained for the success of the transit of Venus observation. Great interest in the matter is felt here. New Plymouth, Tuesday. All the immigrants that have arrived here lately are being taken taken up at feir ayerage WuLLiKaTON, Tuesday. iiSS J °rK ?u b P ? id over last ni « ht abo « fc fi ♦ v 8 f °" owln & were the principal OBnen, £213 Ssj Mr Walker, £114; Mr Tancred, £ 7l 6s. The remainder was in small sums under £50. The weather has been overcast all the morning, and la drizzling rain is now falling' It locks ill for the success of to-morrow's observations The weather record at the telegraph station shows overcast and gloomy weather at most of the stations in the colony, Chbistchobch, Tuesday, Bain fell last night, and tbe sky looked bad thtfl morning, but is now clearing, and the barometer has a rfight upward tendencythus good hopes are entertained of fine weather for observing the transit of Verms SSEZST' laaddition [ otn c English party at Burnbam, a large numberof local amateurs teSd" * rran ßements for observing tbe